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Reaver not working and/or in loop

I have downloaded the last version, "BT5R3-GNOME-32.iso" with MD5 aafff8ff5b71fdb6fccdded49a6541a0 and created an USB Disk.

Found my Wireless Card with : "iwconfig"

Put my wireless card on monitor mode with: "airmon-ng start wlan0"

Found the BSSID of my router that I want to crack. It is one Thomson DWG850-4B. I set up its configuration to WPA2, Cipher: CCMP, Authentication: PSK.
I first tried to use "airodump-ng wlan0" but it didn't work, and than I tried "airodump-ng mon0" which worked out and I was able to see my router BSSID.

Once I checked that I could see my router, I sent: "reaver -i mon0 -b BSSID -vv".
It is important to mention that I'm not conected to the internet trough my wireless router. My notebook doesn't have it's connection on it.

I left the computer for over 12 hours runing, but nothing was showing on the screen.

Than, I decided to open another command windows and sent instruction "airodump-ng mon0". I was trying to see if I was still able to see my router, when I realized that with this other screen running, the previous one strart working and issuing the following informations:

Re: Reaver not working and/or in loop

i have got the same problem. I read that is probably we had problems with the driver adapter. i´ve got iwlwifi in my intel 5100. I want to install iwlagn but i don´t know to do it. Which adapter and driver do you have?

Re: Reaver not working and/or in loop

Originally Posted by rsavassi

What should I do from this point ?

I registered just to answer your question!

I hate it when people reply and don't help with the situation. ><

I would make sure that your wireless interface is supported. The easiest way to see if it is supported and WOULD work is type in your command and add --pin 1234567890 where 1234567890 is your psk and see if it works for you.

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Please, be more specific as to the type of wifi card and chipset..Not all are supported to be in monitor mode..All app to audit wifi APs need to be set and inject in monitor mode..The driver should support monitor mode..

As far as I know, intel does not support monitor mode natively, unless the driver is patched...Please refer to aircrack-ng to see monitor mode support.

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What should I do from this point ?[/QUOTE]

You should try a different router, Is yours TKIP? By any chance?
I found that routers with TKIP hang on the association and sometimes reaver doesnt even try any pins.
Most house routers are WPA CCMP etc but businesses are more likely to be WPA TKIP etc and for some reason they dont always go.

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Hi BorisTheBlade, I can see on with "airodump-ng mon0" been CCMP, but in reality, the router configuration is: SSID Disabled; Closed Network Open; WPA-PSK Enabled; WPA2-PSK Enabled; WPA/WPA2 Encryption : TKIP + AES; Group Key Rotation Interval 0. Is there a way around to get in with this configuration ?

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Hi pwn2ownz. First of all, thank you for your help. It really mean for us beginners. I had been traveling and couldn't access this forum. On your reply you just didn't mentioned the command, would it br "reaver -i moninterface -b bssid -vv -pin xxxxxxxxxx" ? I just don't want to try something wrong and mess up everithing. Best regards.

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yeah i had the same problem the first time i tried reaver it was stuck on that first pin but then i decided to kill all the processes that might be interfering with airmon-ng with the command "airmon-ng check kill" and it worked after that! let me know if it works

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I'm having the same issues as the OP. Exactly. I registered to hopefully find some help on this.

When I initially used reaver, it was working, albeit slowly. I would get about 30 pins in, and then I would get a warning, and it would disable me for about 5 minutes. I let it run 10 hours, and it got stock at 12% done; eventually it just kept giving me this error.

I tried starting from scratch, but now it just doesn't work at all, it won't even get past the first pin. Is it possible the AP blacklisted my mac address?